M H Birley and K Lock. 1998. 
Health and peri-urban natural resource production   
In: Integrated Bio-Systems in Zero Emissions Applications.
Proceedings of the Internet Conference on Integrated Biosystems.
Eds: Eng-Leong Foo & Tarcisio Della Senta. 1998  http://www.ias.unu.edu/proceedings/icibs/birley
 
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Dr. Martin Birley 
International Health Impact Assessment Group, 
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 
Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, U.K.  
E-mail: Mhb@liv.ac.uk. 

Dr. Martin Birley is senior lecturer in medical entomology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Liverpool, England) and a member of its International Health Impact Assessment Interest Group. Martin Birley has a B.Sc. and MSc in engineering and a Ph.D. in insect ecology. He is also manager of the WHO Collaborating Centre for environmental management for vector control and the International Health Impact Assessment Research Group; a member of the steering committee of the WHO/FAO panel of experts for environmental management. He has acted as consultant to the WHO, FAO, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, British ODA (DFID), and various private environmental consultants. He is author of books on health impact assessment of development projects and a visiting fellow to the International Irrigation Management Institute. He has worked in many countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and S E Asia. He is 50 years old, married with 2 children and likes wind surfing, hill walking and photography.
Abstract
The health problems of peri-urban areas have received far less attention than either rural or urban areas. There is considerable interest in promoting the development of natural resource use in peri-urban areas using the opportunities provided by the recycling of urban waste and the proximity to vast urban markets. Both research and assessment procedures are required to ensure that such development projects safeguard human health. A comprehensive review of these issues was commissioned and forms the basis for this paper.